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...Wichita, Kans., before he took the stand in his suit for $1,491 overtime wages he claimed from Wichita Transportation Co., Christian E. Klag folded his hands and intoned: "Dear Jesus, help me this morning to be truthful and honest and to show my cause is just and that I have been unfairly dealt with. Help the jurors to see the light, we ask in Thy name. Amen." Judge Roby Nesmith promptly declared a mistrial, dismissed the jury...
...Wichita the air became so bumpy that it knocked his compass needle askew, left Pilot Hughes dependent upon maps and city lights below. He recognized the lights of Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis at hour intervals. Near Indianapolis a tailwind lifted his speed to 295 m.p.h., carried him past Columbus in 35 minutes. There the moon came up, gave him a definite guidepost to the Atlantic Coast, which he reached in another 105 minutes...
...wish to correct the statement in TIME, Dec. 16, that the University of Wichita's only claim to fame is its Omnibus College. Wichita University has a much greater claim to fame in the fact that the Dean of the College of Fine Arts is the foremost contemporary U. S. composer, Thurlow Lieurance, master of Indian music...
...ROBERT E. ISRAEL JR. Wichita, Kans...
TIME gladly salutes Wichita's Composer Thurlow Lieurance (pronounced Leeur-aunce...